Category: PyroCarbon
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MSc completed: Lorena de Souza Fleury traces a 25-year legacy of soil fertilisation in Amazonian secondary forests
Lorena de Souza Fleury’s MSc at INPA finds that forest age, not fertiliser, drove carbon recovery in Amazonian secondary forests after 25 years, with soil holding most of the carbon.
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High-elevation tropical forest soils in Colombian Andes are rich in carbon from past fires
New research reveals that high-elevation tropical forest soils in the Colombian Andes store large stocks of pyrogenic and organic carbon, with clay content and fire history as key controls.
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Amazon PyroCarbon Project Officially Launched!
We are pleased to announce the start of the Amazon PyroCarbon project. This major international collaboration, involving researchers from the UK, Brazil, and Australia, will seek to answer one of the biggest open questions in climate science: what happens to the vast stores of carbon in Amazonian soils in response to fire? Our team will…